ON A COLLECTION OF CRANE-FLIES (TIPULIDAE 

 DIPTERA) FROM THE FIJI ISLANDS. 



The following crane-flies were included in material sent to 

 Mr. Harry H. Knight by Dr. James F. Illingworth. The only 

 published reference to the Tipulid fauna of these islands is 

 included in Skuses Diptera of Australia (vol. IV, 2nd series, 

 18S9) and his records are mentioned herewith. I am indebted 

 to Dr. Illingworth and Mr. Knight for this material. The 

 types are in the collection of the author. 



Family Tipulidae. Sul^family Limnobinae. Tril)e Lim^nobini. 

 Dicranomyia saltens DoIcscIkiII. 



1S.')7 Limnobia sallcns Doleschall; Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., vol. 14, 

 p. ;j!)0, pi. 2, fig. 3. 



Two, a male and a female, from Nadi on July 27. This 

 seems to be the most easterly station so far made known for 

 this species; it has been recorded from southern India, Java, 

 the Philippine Islands, etc. 



Dicranomyia illingworthi, sp. n. 



Wings h\'alinc with sparse brown markings; .So short ending just 

 beyond the origin of Rs. 



Male, length, 4.G -5 mm. ; wing, ,5.2 -O.S mm. 



Male: Rostrum and palpi brown. Antenna dark brown, the 

 flagellar segments globular in shape. Head dark brown. 



Thorax rather uniformly dark brown, stripes on the pracscutum not 

 well-defined, lobes of the scutum a little darker. Pleiu-c-e unifonn brown. 

 Halteres pale, stem moderate in length. Legs, coxje light brown, 

 trochanters brown. Wings hyaline, veins brown; a small rounded 

 brown stigmal spot ; pale seams at Sc2, base of Rs and on the cross-veins 

 and deflections of veins along the cord and outer end of cell 1st M2. 

 Venation: (See fig. 1.) Sc short, ending just beyond the origin of Rs. 

 Basal deflection of Cui before the fork of M. 



Abdominal tergites slightly darkened, the stcmites pale, the abdo- 

 men rather transparent. Hypopj'gium with the pleurites short, cylin- 

 drical; dorsal appendage chitinized short, slightly curved and acute at 

 apex; ventral appendage large, pale, almost white, with the outline 

 rounded, the inner lobe produced mesad into a cylindrical, feebly 

 chitinized, point that bears two bristles which are directed caudad, 

 (See fig. 7.) 



•Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell University. 



